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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• SCaLE 23x | Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG"
• PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come Together
• Pasadena Linux Party Meetup
• Discord to roll out age verification next month
• Hack of age verification firm may have exposed 70,000 Discord users’ ID photos
• Discord's Age Verification Has A Weird Link To Palantir's Peter Thiel
• NULLFS and OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE Features Merged For Linux 7.0
• OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE To Provide A Security and Performance Win For Dealing With Containers
• All about initramfs
• pivot_root implementation and constraints
• TrueNAS Scale
• ZimaOS — A Simplified, Focused and Open NAS OS Supports all X86-64 hardware.
• Github: ZimaOS
• Clan — opinionated NixOS peer-to-peer computer management framework
• What is Clan? - Documentation
• clan-lol/clan-core: Build your own clan
• ConnecTen internet
• Case Study: Fortress Outdoor Router
• Pick: booklog — B{ook}log is a self-hosted, multi-user book tracking platform for avid readers. Each user maintains a personal library and wishlist, with per-user readings, stats, and timeline.
• Pick: whosthere — Local Area Network discovery tool with an interactive Terminal User Interface (TUI) written in Go. Discover, explore, and understand your LAN in an intuitive way. Knock Knock.. who's there? 🚪
• Pick: Weylus — Use your tablet as graphic tablet/touch screen on your computer.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• SCaLE 23x | Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG"
• PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come Together
• Pasadena Linux Party Meetup
• Valve explains why it hasn’t announced release dates for its new hardware, now plans for “first half of the year” — Valve now says all three products will ship “in the first half of the year.”
• Latest VirtualBox Code Begins Supporting KVM Backend — Support for KVM or other native OS hypervisors in conjunction with VirtualBox has long been sought and it's finally becoming a reality.
• bcachefs-tools v1.36.1 — Interactive TUI for monitoring various filesystem internals, slowpaths and device performance, with duration and frequency tracking for various events. Helpful for diagnosing performance issues.
• bcachefs v1.36.1 is out - next release will be erasure coding : r/bcachefs
• bcachefs PSA: if you're on 1.33-1.35, upgrade asap — Several people have been hit by this, so - please upgrade asap.
• Mattermost — Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle.
• Debian's CI Data No Longer Publicly Browseable Due To LLM Scrapers / Bot Traffic
• Venice AI - Private AI for Unlimited Creative Freedom
• ThinkBox V2 - A Custom 4-Bay SATA/SAS HDD NAS for Your Lenovo M720Q
• Code for Climate 2026 — The Mad Botter Earth Day Open Source Challenge — We're doing our Earth Day open-source competition again The Mad Botter INC. Once again featuring System76 hardware and this time with dual tracks for college and non-college students.
• Michael Dominick on X - Earth Day Open Source Challenge
• Red5d/podcast_mcp — MCP server for accessing Podcasting 2.0 RSS feed episode data. "I've really only tested it with JB feeds!"
• Pick: Plexus — Remove the fear of Android app compatibility on de-Googled devices.
• Plexus-app: GitHub
• Pick: ReinschriftTodo — Reinschrift combines a native GNOME interface with the simplicity of plain text. Your tasks remain a normal Markdown file – easy to back up, versionable via Git, and editable on any device with your favorite editor.
• Reinschrift on Flathub

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• Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
• Jupiter Signal Network Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!

Support LINUX Unplugged

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come Together
• Agenda - PlanetNix 2026
• SCaLE 23x | Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG"
• Pasadena Linux Party Meetup
• LINUX Unplugged 650: This Old Network — We rebuild a small office network around Linux, with an Unplugged twist and real-world constraints. Things don't go quite as expected...
• OpenWrt Wiki - Ad blocking
• AdBlock-fast — AdBlock-Fast is a high-performance ad-blocking service for OpenWrt that integrates with Dnsmasq, SmartDNS, and Unbound.
• OpenWrt Wiki - Supported Hardware Table
• Abe's volition — This is a public, sanitized version of my Abiverse repository for people to use and run their own Abes
• OpenClaw — Clears your inbox, sends emails, manages your calendar, checks you in for flights. All from WhatsApp, Telegram, or any chat app you already use.
• Introducing OpenClaw
• openclaw on GitHub 🦞
• openclaw security Issues
• Practical changes could reduce AI energy demand by up to 90% – University College London
• moltbook — the front page of the agent internet
• SeloraBox - NixOS Edition — SeloraBox is a self-configuring home automation appliance based on NixOS, featuring automated installation, device claiming via QR code, and self-updating configuration management.
• nixtcloud: Nextcloud with NixOS in the backend and P2P connectivity enabled — Nixtcloud turns a Raspberry Pi or NanoPi NEO3 into a privacy-first, zero-config personal cloud — powered by NixOS, Nextcloud, and peer-to-peer remote access via Holesail. Built for the self-hosting crowd who want full control without constant babysitting.
• Holesail.io - Open Source P2P Reverse Proxy
• Pick: ml-sharp-pinokio — One-click 3D Gaussian Splatting generation from a single image.
• Pick: Gradia — Gradia helps you get your screenshots ready for sharing, whether quickly with friends or colleagues, or professionally with the entire world.

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• Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.

Support LINUX Unplugged

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come Together
• SCaLE 23x | Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG"
• GEEKOM IT13 Mini PC 2026
• OpenWrt One
• Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus-E
• Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2 — An updated Zigbee and Thread chip gives it the highest performance available, while providing a rock-solid, stable network.
• SYMFONISK Sonos WiFi bookshelf speaker — The speaker is a collaboration between IKEA and Sonos, so it easily integrates with other products from Sonos.
• IKEA SYMFONISK - Home Assistant — Support for devices by IKEA SYMFONISK in Home Assistant is provided by the Sonos integration.
• OpenCode — The open-source AI coding agent.
• OpenCode on GitHub
• Actual — A local-first personal finance app.
• Pocket ID — A simple and easy-to-use OIDC provider that allows users to authenticate with their passkeys to your services.
• Pick: Pocket TTS — A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice.
• Pocket TTS on GitHub
• Pick: WebView Kiosk — Turn your Android device into a locked-down web page in fullscreen mode.
• webview-kiosk on GitHub

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• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• LinuxFest Northwest 2025: Call for Speakers — Call closes at 11:59 PM PST on 2025-01-10. Conference is 2025-04-25 through 2025-04-27.
• Qobuz — Buy your favourite albums in CD or Hi-Res quality and enjoy them forever.
• Los Machucambos In Phase 4, Los Machucambos - Qobuz
• Los Machucambos – In Phase 4 – Vinyl (LP, Album, Stereo), 1961 [r5061780] | Discogs
• Los Machucambos - Wikipedia
• cdrdao: cdrdao is a free and open source utility software application for authoring and ripping of audio and data CD-ROMs
• cdrdao-pled: Portable Linux x86_64 pre-built download of the open source CD burning/ripping utility cdrdao that works on all modern Linux distros.
• freac.org: fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders
• k3b: Full-featured CD/DVD/Blu-ray burning and ripping application
• CD writing using cdrecord
• xfburn
• jlesage/docker-xfburn: Docker container for Xfburn
• OpenWrt One
• OpenWrt One Introduction
• Banana Pi OpenWrt One
• Banana Pi OpenWrt One PCBA Router Board
• Annual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
• mjvc's 2014 nix config
• incus gpu docs
• veyman's immich-frame config
• GitHub - LACT: Linux GPU Configuration Tool
• exislow/tidal-dl-ng: Multithreaded TIDAL Media Downloader Next Generation! Up to HiRes Lossless / TIDAL MAX 24-bit, 192 kHz.
• ebb-earl-co/tidal-wave: Waving at the TIDAL music service
• DXX-Rebirth — DXX-Rebirth is a modern port of the Descent game engine, based on the late D1X and D2X source ports (which, in turn, were based on the original Descent source release and LDescent). The Rebirth Team has spent a lot of time working to improve the source code by fixing old bugs and adding some improvements, while always staying true to our philosophy: Keep it Descent!
• Descent on GOG.COM
• dxx-rebirth on GitHub

Plus: Wes' top DNS server pick, and it's not one we've heard before.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• First Router Designed Specifically For OpenWrt Released — The OpenWrt One costs $89 with a case ($68.42 for the logic board only) and is hacker-friendly, featuring robust hardware specifications such as a MediaTek MT7981B SoC, dual Ethernet ports (2.5 GbE and 1 GbE), USB-C power, and modular expansion options.
• Both KDE and GNOME to offer official distros
• "KDE Linux" (codenamed "Project Banana")
• Akademy 2024 - Saturday 7th September - Room 1 - YouTube
• An Operating System of Our Own - Akademy 2024 - FTV
• Adrian Vovk
• A Desktop for All
• GNOME OS Nightly
• Fitting Everything Together
• Shell Yes! | Push the Button
• 2024 Tuxies.Party — New category based on your feedback, and we've cleared out the hall of fame, all distros and desktops up for a vote!
• Reminder that PlanetNix Call for Papers is still open!
• Technitium DNS Server
• TechnitiumSoftware/DnsServer: Technitium DNS Server — Technitium DNS Server is an open source authoritative as well as recursive DNS server that can be used for self hosting a DNS server for privacy & security. It works out-of-the-box with no or minimal configuration and provides a user friendly web console accessible using any modern web browser.
• Technitium Blog: Running Technitium DNS Server on Ubuntu Linux
• DnsServer/docker-compose.yml
• technitium-dns-server - MyNixOS
• NixOS Search - Options - technitium
• technitium-dns-server.nix
• Membership Black Friday Sale 30% off
• Annual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
• Errands — Todo application for those who prefer simplicity.
• Errands GitHub Page

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• Some users experienced data loss on 21.10
• Ubuntu Makes Firefox Snap Default in 21.10
• How to Remove Firefox Snap from Ubuntu (21.10 +) And Alternatives
• Element One — Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram in one place.
• Space Exploration Technologies on GitHub
• U-Boot Changes by SpaceX
• Linux Kernel Changes by SpaceX
• SpaceX openWRT Pull Requests
• PTP Changes by SpaceX
• Notes from a talk given by then head of Software at SpaceX, Jinnah Hosein — On 1-Aug-2017, Jinnah Hosein, who was the head of Software at SpaceX at the time, spoke to my company, Orbital Insight, in Mountain View California, and I took some notes.
• Summary of SpaceX Software AMA
• Stack Overflow Blog — Network protocols in orbit: Building a space-based ISP
• starlink-grpc-tools — This repository has a handful of tools for interacting with the gRPC service implemented on the Starlink user terminal (AKA "the dish").
• Set a Static Route for the App to talk to the Dish
• Live Starlink Satellite and Coverage Map
• Starlink Coverage Tracker
• Croc — A tool that allows any two computers to simply and securely transfer files and folders.
• crocgui — A nice simple GUI for croc, designed for mobile use.
• kdeconnect-ios — Native iOS port of KDE Connect.

Plus, we attempt to combine two internet connections with Linux live from the woods!

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
1:07 Intro
1:55 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru
2:35 Lenovo Linux Laptops
11:21 Raspberry Pi Storage Speedup
13:31 SPONSOR: Linode
17:45 Linux Unplugged Core Contributors
18:58 Fedora 33 Bug-a-Thon
20:55 Using Two Internet Connections in Linux
25:11 Policy Routing
28:32 Net-ISP-Balance
31:46 Diving into Policy Routing
33:42 Speedify
39:35 Feedback
40:32 Pick: tunshell
43:16 Outro
45:46 Post-Show

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, and Neal Gompa.

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• Lenovo begins rollout of Fedora Linux on their laptops, Ubuntu systems due soon | GamingOnLinux
• Linux Patch Proposed To Double Raspberry Pi 4 Transfer Speed To eMMC/SD Storage - Phoronix
• Unplugged Core Contributors
• (Test Week) Fedora 33 Btrfs Test Day" - Fedocal
• Dual 4G LTE Router for Public Transportation MAX Transit Duo- Peplink
• Bonding internet connections
• VPN Bonding - Simon Mott
• Aggregate internet links with mlvpn
• MLVPN Docs
• engarde: A go network utility to create a reliable IP tunnel over multiple connections
• WireGuard: Multi Link / VPN Bonding
• Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control: Routing for multiple uplinks/providers
• Net-ISP-Balance: Load-balance your Internet connection across two or more ISPs for improved bandwidth and reliability
• Improve Your Multi-Homed Servers with Policy routing
• A Quick Introduction to Linux Policy Routing
• Policy Based Routing: Concepts and Implementation
• Task-centered iproute2 user guide
• An older pure-iptables approach
• Simple policy routing load-balancing script
• Foolsm - Foobar Link Status Monitor
• Shorewall has multi-ISP support too
• How I doubled my Internet speed with OpenWRT
• Speedify
• Jupiter Broadcasting Matrix Quick Start Guide – Jay Tuckey’s Blog
• TimeToogo/tunshell: Remote shell into ephemeral environments 🐚 🦀
• Ubuntu Podcast
• The New Show

Plus we debate if OpenWrt is still the best router solution, and chew on Microsoft's new SELinux competitor.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Neal Gompa.

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• Window Maker Version 0.95.9 Released
• Microsoft announces IPE, a new code integrity feature for Linux — Microsoft says that IPE is not intended for general-purpose computing. The IPE LSM was designed for very specific use cases where security is paramount, and administrators need to be in full control of what runs on their systems. Examples include embedded systems, such as network firewall devices running in a data center, or Linux servers running strict and immutable configurations and applications.
• OpenWrt - Opkg susceptible to MITM
• Brent sits down with Daniel Foré, founder of elementary OS
• Know when we're going to be live. Check out the calendar!
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• Fedora nightly compose finder
• Fedora 32 Looking At Using EarlyOOM By Default To Better Deal With Low Memory Situations — The oom-killer generally has a bad reputation among Linux users. This may be part of the reason Linux invokes it only when it has absolutely no other choice. It will swap out the desktop environment, drop the whole page cache and empty every buffer before it will ultimately kill a process. At least that's what I think that it will do. I have yet to be patient enough to wait for it, sitting in front of an unresponsive system.
• earlyoom - Early OOM Daemon for Linux — The oom-killer generally has a bad reputation among Linux users. This may be part of the reason Linux invokes it only when it has absolutely no other choice. It will swap out the desktop environment, drop the whole page cache and empty every buffer before it will ultimately kill a process. At least that's what I think that it will do. I have yet to be patient enough to wait for it, sitting in front of an unresponsive system.
• rfjakob/systembus-notify: systembus-notify - system bus notification daemon
• oomd — Out of memory killing has historically happened inside kernel space. On a memory overcommitted linux system, malloc(2) and friends usually never fail. However, if an application dereferences the returned pointer and the system has run out of physical memory, the linux kernel is forced to take extreme measures, up to and including killing processes. This is sometimes a slow and painful process because the kernel can spend an unbounded amount of time swapping in and out pages and evicting the page cache. Furthermore, configuring policy is not very flexible while being somewhat complicated.
• low-memory-monitor on GitLab
• low-memory-monitor — low-memory-monitor, as its name implies, monitors the amount of free physical memory on the system and will shoot off signals to interested user-space applications, usually session managers, or sandboxing helpers, when that memory runs low, making it possible for applications to shrink their memory footprints before it's too late either to recover a usable system, or avoid taking a performance hit.
• Nohang — Nohang is a highly configurable daemon for Linux which is able to correctly prevent out of memory (OOM) and keep system responsiveness in low memory conditions.
• Better interactivity in low-memory situations - devel - Fedora Mailing-Lists
• EnableEarlyoom - Fedora Project Wiki
• Nushell - The Unix philosophy of shells, where pipes connect simple commands together, and bring it to the modern style of development.
• Timekpr - simple and easy to use time managing software that helps optimizing time spent at computer.